Topic: active object detection

An animal’s ability to respond to its environment relies on effectively decoding neural representations of sensory stimuli. While it is known that primary sensory cortices represent sensory stimuli through specific patterns of activity, it is unknown how these representations are preserved over time. Many primary and higher order cortices have been shown to exhibit changes in neural activity representing the same sensory stimuli even when behavior is stable, a process dubbed ‘representational drift’. This poses a critical challenge for the brain – how can animals maintain stable perception and